Nothing in the world delights a truly religious people so much as consigning them to eternal damnation.

The attendance of that brother was now become like the attendance of a demon on some devoted being that had sold himself to destruction

We are all subjected to two distinct natures in the same person. I myself have suffered grievously in that way.

An exaltation of spirit lifted me, as it were, far above the earth and the sinful creatures crawling on its surface; and I deemed myself as an eagle among the children of men, soaring on high, and looking down with pity and contempt on the grovelling creatures below.